Studies on Religious Complex of Sufism and Saint Veneration from an Interdisciplinary Approach Involving Anthropologists, Historians and Students of Islamic Thought

我们把苏菲主义和圣人崇拜的宗教情结作为我们研究的主题，这两个因素在穆斯林世界都广为人知，被信仰和实践。综合过去人类学、历史学和伊斯兰思想研究的许多成果，我们试图赋予它们一个新的一般理论框架，可以始终如一地应用于这些宗教信仰和仪式的各种形式。1.我们在三年内举行了14次学习会议，2.我们的成员积极参加了日本中东研究协会（JAMES）组织的小组讨论会在第19届世界大会的国际协会的历史，（IAHR 2005，东京）3.我们在第二届世界中东研究大会上组织了两个小组讨论会，题为“苏菲派和圣徒的继承逻辑”（WOCMES 2）于2006年6月在约旦安曼举行。4.我们将我们的成果作为特刊发表在三个学术期刊上，即《索菲亚亚洲研究杂志》22（2004）、《日本中东研究协会年鉴》21（2）（2006）和《东方：日本近东研究学会报告》42（2007）。东京：从2007年起，我们的共同研究将由国立人文科学研究所的两个伊斯兰地区研究项目的研究小组继承。其中一个是由土永担任组长的京都大学伊斯兰地域研究中心第4研究组，另一个是由赤堀担任组长的上智大学上智伊斯兰地域研究第3研究组。

We took up as the subject of our research the religious complex of Sufism and saint veneration, both of which factors have been widely known, believed in, and practiced in the Muslim world. Synthesizing numerous results of past research endeavors in anthropology, history and Islamic thought, we sought to endow them with a new framework of general theories, that could be consistently applied to diverse forms of these religious faith and ritual.1.We held 14 study meetings in three years, including two-day seminars held thrice yearly.2.Our members participated actively in the panel organized by the Japan Association for Middle East Studies (JAMES) at the 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR 2005, Tokyo).3.We organized two panels entitled "The Logic of Succession around Sufis and Saints" at the 2nd World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES 2) held in Amman, Jordan in June, 2006.4.We published our achievements as special issues in three academic journals, namely The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies 22 (2004), Annals of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies 21 (2)(2006) and Orient: Reports of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 42 (2007).5.The publication, Sufism and Saint Veneration in Islam (ed. by AKAHORI et al., Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press, 2005), is also a fruit of our efforts.From 2007 our joint research is to be succeeded by two research groups of the NIHU (National Institute for the Humanities) Program for the Islamic Area Studies. One is research unit 4 of the Center for the Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University headed by TONAGA, and the other is research group 3 of the Sophia Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University, headed by AKAHORI.